Patents by Inventor Kazuki KAMIMURA

Kazuki KAMIMURA has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240014207
    Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor device that includes a diode portion, the semiconductor device including: a drift region of a first conductivity type provided in a semiconductor substrate; an anode region of a second conductivity type provided to be closer to a front surface side of the semiconductor substrate than the drift region; and a trench contact portion provided at a front surface of the semiconductor substrate in the diode portion, in which in a depth direction of the semiconductor substrate, a doping concentration of the anode region at a same depth as that of a bottom portion of the trench contact portion is 1E16 cm?3 or more and 1E17 cm?3 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuki KAMIMURA, Toshiyuki MATSUI, Tatsuya NAITO
  • Publication number: 20230071170
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate having a transistor portion and a diode portion; and an emitter electrode and a gate electrode provided above a front surface of the semiconductor substrate, wherein the transistor portion has a plurality of trench portions electrically connected to the gate electrode, a drift region of a first conductivity type provided in the semiconductor substrate, a base region of a second conductivity type provided above the drift region, and a trench bottom barrier region of a second conductivity type provided between the drift region and the base region and having a higher doping concentration than that of the base region, and the trench bottom barrier region is electrically connected to the emitter electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Toshiyuki MATSUI, Kazuki KAMIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230036039
    Abstract: A semiconductor device, including a semiconductor substrate having a diode portion, wherein the diode portion includes: an anode region which is provided on a front surface of the semiconductor substrate and is of a second conductivity type; a trench portion provided so as to extend in a predetermined extending direction on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate; a trench contact portion provided on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate; and a plug region which is provided at a lower end of the trench contact portion and is of a second conductivity type, and which has a doping concentration higher than that of the anode region, wherein a plurality of plug regions, each of which being the plug region, is provided separately from each other along the extending direction, is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Toshiyuki MATSUI, Tatsuya NAITO, Kazuki KAMIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220351973
    Abstract: A semiconductor device has transistor portions and diode portions. The transistor portions have a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a first semiconductor region of a second conductivity type, second semiconductor regions of the first conductivity type, gate insulating films, gate electrodes, a first semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type, a third semiconductor region of the second conductivity type, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The diode portions have the semiconductor substrate, the first semiconductor region, the first semiconductor layer, a fourth semiconductor region of the first conductivity type, the first electrode, and the second electrode. The first semiconductor layer has a predetermined region, a depth of the predetermined region from a second main surface of the semiconductor substrate is greater than a depth of a region of the first semiconductor layer excluding the predetermined region, from the second main surface of the semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki KAMIMURA, Motoyoshi KUBOUCHI
  • Patent number: 11424126
    Abstract: A semiconductor device has transistor portions and diode portions. The transistor portions have a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a first semiconductor region of a second conductivity type, second semiconductor regions of the first conductivity type, gate insulating films, gate electrodes, a first semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type, a third semiconductor region of the second conductivity type, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The diode portions have the semiconductor substrate, the first semiconductor region, the first semiconductor layer, a fourth semiconductor region of the first conductivity type, the first electrode, and the second electrode. A first depth of the first semiconductor layer from the back surface of the semiconductor substrate in the transistor portions is greater than a second depth of the first semiconductor layer from the back surface of the semiconductor substrate in the diode portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Kamimura, Motoyoshi Kubouchi
  • Patent number: 11420507
    Abstract: A power train support structure includes a first front side frame disposed on one of left and right sides of a power train; a second front side frame disposed on the other of the left and right sides of the power train, and being greatly away from the power train with respect to the first front side frame; a mounting bracket having one of left and right ends connected to the power train; and a connecting member for connecting the mounting bracket and the second front side frame. The mounting bracket includes a front fixing portion and a rear fixing portion to be fixed to the power train. A strength of the front fixing portion and the rear fixing portion is set to such a strength that the rear fixing portion is broken by a collision load from a front side, and the front fixing portion is not broken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wataru Kuwahara, Takashi Hamada, Yuuki Uchiba, Yuya Yamaoka, Yusuke Oki, Masaaki Kashimoto, Ryuichiro Amano, Yoshiaki Noguchi, Kazuki Kamimura
  • Patent number: 11393812
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including a diode region provided in a semiconductor substrate is provided, the diode region including a base region of a first conductivity type exposed on an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, a cathode region of a second conductivity type exposed on a lower surface of the semiconductor substrate, an inter-cathode region of a first conductivity type exposed on the lower surface of the semiconductor substrate and alternately arranged with the cathode region in a predetermined direction, and a floating region of a second conductivity type provided above the cathode region and above the inter-cathode region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Kamimura, Motoyoshi Kubouchi
  • Publication number: 20210398811
    Abstract: A semiconductor device has transistor portions and diode portions. The transistor portions have a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a first semiconductor region of a second conductivity type, second semiconductor regions of the first conductivity type, gate insulating films, gate electrodes, a first semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type, a third semiconductor region of the second conductivity type, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The diode portions have the semiconductor substrate, the first semiconductor region, the first semiconductor layer, a fourth semiconductor region of the first conductivity type, the first electrode, and the second electrode. A first depth of the first semiconductor layer from the back surface of the semiconductor substrate in the transistor portions is greater than a second depth of the first semiconductor layer from the back surface of the semiconductor substrate in the diode portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki KAMIMURA, Motoyoshi KUBOUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200376946
    Abstract: A power train support structure includes a first front side frame disposed on one of left and right sides of a power train; a second front side frame disposed on the other of the left and right sides of the power train, and being greatly away from the power train with respect to the first front side frame; a mounting bracket having one of left and right ends connected to the power train; and a connecting member for connecting the mounting bracket and the second front side frame. The mounting bracket includes a front fixing portion and a rear fixing portion to be fixed to the power train. A strength of the front fixing portion and the rear fixing portion is set to such a strength that the rear fixing portion is broken by a collision load from a front side, and the front fixing portion is not broken.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wataru KUWAHARA, Takashi HAMADA, Yuuki UCHIBA, Yuya YAMAOKA, Yusuke OKI, Masaaki KASHIMOTO, Ryuichiro AMANO, Yoshiaki NOGUCHI, Kazuki KAMIMURA
  • Publication number: 20190206860
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including a diode region provided in a semiconductor substrate is provided, the diode region including a base region of a first conductivity type exposed on an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, a cathode region of a second conductivity type exposed on a lower surface of the semiconductor substrate, an inter-cathode region of a first conductivity type exposed on the lower surface of the semiconductor substrate and alternately arranged with the cathode region in a predetermined direction, and a floating region of a second conductivity type provided above the cathode region and above the inter-cathode region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuki KAMIMURA, Motoyoshi KUBOUCHI